Product: Radio
Targeted Audience: 10 and up
Feedback: The project was very useful to me and worth doing again
My interpretation of reverse engineering is, instead of building the object you are taking the object apart. You are finding out what you can do to make this object work even better than what it had been before. It is practiced in the industry because every day you want to make that product or that object to be able to work faster, easier to use and appeal to all audiences. Reverse engineering teaches one how the product really works, you get to look and see what is inside the radio and what makes it all happen. It also shows you what’s actually in the product that causing it to function properly. On the other hand forward engineering is basically is how you start the project and make the project or object. It gains customers by being able to go back in to the project and figure out how can I make this better so that the customers I have can keep coming back and tell others, the customers can also give feedback or give suggestions on how they would like the product to work, making the engineers take the product apart and making it better.
My team’s product was the radio, the criteria of the radio was to make the radio slimmer, faster and appealing to every eye and also to make it Wi-Fi capable. Some of the constraints were that our $99.99 budget causing us to take off quality speakers, touch screen, sensors do to the budget. By having the criteria it gave us options and showed us where and what direction to with the project. The main key components of the radio were that the product was to heavy so we wanted to cut off some weight, second was the how the cd was injected in to the radio and ejected out, third was making the old buttons turn in to touch screen buttons, fourth was to make the radio come in different color ways like red white and black to appeal to all ages, fifth was to upgrade the speakers, we wanted smaller but better quality speakers. The process of this project was to fill out the packet and make a design brief and then take the object apart draw the interior and then research about our project (radio) and then draw another design brief about how you want the project to look.
My feedback on this project is that I liked being able to go back and being able to check out how everything worked and where it was at. It was cool how I got to choose how I thought would change the radio and make it appealing to everyone else other than me.